"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"
-Mary Astell
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"Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.“
-Mary Astell
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"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."
-Mary Astell
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"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."
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"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
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"The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes."
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"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it."
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
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"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
-Charlotte Bronte
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
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